Thirty-three Lynchburg College students will join an expected 10,000 other students from around the nation this weekend at Power Shift 2009, the national youth summit on the climate crisis in Washington, D.C., Feb. 27-March 2.
Young people hope to hold elected officials accountable for rebuilding the economy and reclaiming the future through bold climate and clean energy policy.
"It is our generation that will face the consequences of not acting to halt global warming now, and it will be our vision, our will, and our power that finally tips the balance in the global warming struggle," said Amanda D'Arcy, a junior international relations major at LC and member of the student Alliance for Energy Awareness.
Last fall, the Power Vote campaign collected 341,127 pledges to vote and to demand that leaders create millions of green jobs, invest in a clean energy economy, cut global warming pollution immediately, end dependence on dirty energy, take dirty money out of politics, and re-engage as a leader in the international community. Power Vote helped turn out the record 24 million young voters who decided the election.